Quick Start Podcast

Listen in to Quick Start, The Rep’s new behind-the-scenes podcast. For each episode, we sit down with an actor from one of our Mainstage productions to explore the world of the play. We’ll talk characters, themes, issues raised by the play, historical background and other details you won’t hear anywhere else.

2017-2018 Mainstage Season

Fajer Kaisi of The Humans stopped by to discuss his character in this four-time Tony Award-winning play, as well as the show's focus on family, carving a real turkey carcass on stage every night, and representation in Hollywood.

Morgan Kirner of The Marvelous Wonderettes helps us dive into the show's phenomenal playlist, while also shedding light on the rehearsal process and explaining how audience participation helps keep the show fresh.

We spoke with Miles G. Jackson, who plays Arthur de Bourgh in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, about his crash course in Jane Austen, keeping his naturally sarcastic sense of humor in check during scenes and how unspoken emotions are just as important as spoken dialogue in this play.

We talked with Kim Wong, who plays Ophelia in Hamlet, about her Shakespeare nerdom, how to listen to The Bard's works as an audience member, and why students really shouldn't be afraid of his plays.